Toshiba Canvio Basics 2TB A discount drive for those willing to manually backup

At the time of writing, Toshiba was offering the bigger 1TB and 2TB Canvio Basics drives for between $10-$20 less than street prices for equivalent WD My Passport Ultra products. Considering the Basics range offers similar read and write speeds, if you can get them at that price, you’d be silly not to. It’s worth noting that the Toshiba Basics range don’t include any backup software and are simply just plug and play devices that come preformatted for Windows. You can reformat it from NTFS to exFAT using a Windows computer so it’ll work on both OSs, but if you think you’ll need dedicated backup software then WD’s Passport Ultras might still be a better choice.